Exposés and excess

by Cecelia Tichi

"From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages - one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century - mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers - Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker among them - became best-sellers and prize-winners a hundred...

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